Note 12 — Chapter III · BACK TO THE PENINSULA UNDER SIR ARTHUR WELLESLEY. 1809.
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The author, writing many years after the events described, does not discriminate the titles borne at different dates by his revered commander, but speaks of him as “the Duke,” even from the time he was Sir Arthur Wellesley. At the risk of offending the historical sense of some readers, I have made no attempt to remove such a harmless anachronism.